About
This Is Fine. refers to a panel from the web comic Gunshow where a dog is slowly engulfed in flames while proclaiming that everything is fine. It is used as a reaction image used by forum posters trying to say calm in stressful situations.
Origin
The comic originally comes from K.C. Green’s Gunshow comic #648, actually titled “The Pills Are Working” or “On Fire”, originally posted January 9th, 2013. [1] Green’s drawings have been the basis of several other memes including Staredad, Dickbutt, Mother of God and I’m Okay With This. The comic, depicts a dog in a room that is burning to the ground. The dog reacts calmly, even as he slowly melts from the heat.
Spread
The comic’s first two panels have become popular on sites such as Imgur and Tumblr for being an accurate and useful description of stressful situations.
On September 21st, 2014, user SPIDER_MAN posted these two panels onto /r/Funny[2]. The post received over 1,400 upvotes and 40 comments. The same post also received 4,300 upvotes and 106 comments on imgur.[3]